New Land - the search starts

So a while back I finally hit that point where 512m was not enough. I think this started when I realized I could not put two 10-meter prims side by side on my lot. I wanted more space. I wanted more prims. And I wanted water!

Shopping for land in Second Life is worse than in real. I can't say how many ugly places I visited from the classifieds. I decided that if I was going to find the place I liked I had to change my strategy.

So what was I looking for?

1. Waterfront: Didn't need to be a lot of water. But did not want to be next to someones' house and to have some interesting area.
2. Not stuffy: Did not want to live in some hyper-restricted area where all the houses were the same and all the people were the same.
3. Not scrungy. While I wanted variety, I didn't want a slum.
4. Reasonably Priced: Sigh. Can't ever leave this one out.

So how was I going to find it? It sounds crazy, but I finally decided that I was going to "fly" around the coastlines of the six continents. It would take forever to actually "fly" it, but scrolling though the map with the land sales highlighted was doable.Took several days to do, but was actually fun to do and good learning. It showed me lots of things that people were doing in SL, helped me refine my idea of what I really liked, and it helped me look for things to avoid (like water where a shopping mall can sprout up).

--DD-